Interstitial boron-doped anatase TiO2 thin-films on optical fibres: atmospheric pressure-plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition as the key for functional oxide coatings on temperature-sensitive substrates

Miguel Quesada-González; Kamal Baba; Carlos Sotelo-Vázquez; Patrick Choquet; Claire J. Carmalt; Ivan P. Parkin; Nicolas D. Boscher

doi:10.1039/C7TA02029E

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Interstitial boron-doped anatase TiO₂ thin-films on optical fibres: atmospheric pressure-plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition as the key for functional oxide coatings on temperature-sensitive substrates†

Miguel Quesada-González,

^ab Kamal Baba,

^a Carlos Sotelo-Vázquez,

^b Patrick Choquet,

^a Claire J. Carmalt,

^b Ivan P. Parkin

*^b and Nicolas D. Boscher

*^a

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^a Department of Materials Research and Technology, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 5 Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, Esch-sur-Alzette L-4362, Luxembourg
E-mail: nicolas.boscher@list.lu

^b Materials Chemistry Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK
E-mail: i.p.parkin@ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

Temperature sensitive poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) optical fibres were coated with boron doped-anatase crystalline TiO₂ thin films in a one-step atmospheric pressure-plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (AP-PECVD) process. Both the undoped and interstitial boron-doped TiO₂ thin films showed photoactivity under UV irradiation, with the boron-doped thin films presenting higher photodegradation rates when compared to the undoped samples.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TA02029E
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 06 Mar 2017
Accepted: 10 May 2017
First published: 10 May 2017
This article is Open Access

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J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017,5, 10836-10842

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Interstitial boron-doped anatase TiO₂ thin-films on optical fibres: atmospheric pressure-plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition as the key for functional oxide coatings on temperature-sensitive substrates

M. Quesada-González, K. Baba, C. Sotelo-Vázquez, P. Choquet, C. J. Carmalt, I. P. Parkin and N. D. Boscher, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 10836 DOI: 10.1039/C7TA02029E

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